This is the Forward’s coverage of shootings involving or impacting Jews, many of which are motivated by antisemitism.
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News Will Chabad Rethink Open Door Policy After ‘I Will Kill Jews’ Attack?
(Haaretz) — The large synagogue at the heart of the international Lubavitch movement, called 770 after its address on Eastern Parkway, is busy around the clock, with people coming and going to pray and study religious texts. No one was prepared for what happened late Monday night, when a visibly agitated man walked in, reportedly yelled…
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Fast Forward Security Beefed Up After Fatal Police Shooting of ‘Kill the Jew’ Attacker at Chabad
(Reuters) — New York police fatally shot a man armed with a knife on Tuesday after he stabbed a rabbinical student from Israel in a Brooklyn synagogue, and authorities quickly stepped up security at Jewish houses of worship around the city, police said. The suspect, Calvin Peters, 49, who has a history of mental illness,…
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Fast Forward Yehuda Glick Leaves Hospital Nearly a Month After Failed Assassination Attempt
Yehuda Glick, the Temple Mount activist shot in a failed assassination attempt, left the hospital nearly a month after the attack. At a news conference Monday at Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Glick thanked those who helped to save his life and recited the blessing thanking God as “He who brings back life to the…
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Fast Forward Jewish Museum of Belgium to Reopen Four Months after Fatal Shootings
The Jewish Museum of Belgium will reopen fully to the public four months after four people were killed in a shooting attack there. The Brussels museum in a statement on its website said it will reopen on Sept. 14 as part of the European Day of Jewish Culture. The European Association for the Preservation and…
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News Police Probe Dan Markel Link to ‘Get’ Extortion Rabbis
In the days before his murder, Florida law professor Dan Markel was hired as a legal consultant in an explosive New Jersey divorce extortion case involving several Orthodox rabbis. Markel, who was gunned down outside his Tallahassee, Florida home on July 18, had been in touch with Rabbi Martin Wolmark, one of ten men arrested…
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News Dan Markel Killing Leaves Behind Puzzling Questions — and Wrenching Grief
The three weeks that have passed since the murder of Florida law professor Dan Markel have done little to lift the shroud of mystery surrounding the case. A brilliant legal mind deeply immersed in the life of his local Jewish community in Tallahassee, Markel is still being mourned by friends and colleagues who already miss…
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News Dan Markel Memorial Fund Raises $54K
A internet fund to benefit the sons of slain Florida law professor Dan Markel has been flooded with more than $54,000 dollars in donations, surpassing its initial goal. Markel, who was ambushed and shot to death July 18 as he pulled into the driveway of his Tallahassee home, left behind two sons, Benjamin and Lincoln….
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Fast Forward French Suspect in Brussels Jewish Museum Shooting Extradited to Belgium
The French suspect in a May 24 shooting at the Jewish Museum in Brussels that left four people dead was extradited to Belgium on Tuesday, a court spokeswoman said. Mehdi Nemmouche, 29, appealed a decision to extradite him in June. His lawyer had argued that Nemmouche feared he would be sent from Belgium to Israel,…
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